Crossword Puzzle Number 7243 (Extra Small Grid)

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1. East Indian tree bearing a profusion of intense vermilion velvet-textured blooms and yielding a yellow dye.
4. A socially awkward or tactless act.
8. A condition (mostly in boys) characterized by behavioral and learning disorders.
11. The compass point midway between northeast and east.
12. Absent without permission.
13. The Tibeto-Burman language spoken in the Dali region of Yunnan.
14. Of girls or women.
15. Tropical American tree grown in southern United States having a whitish pink-tinged fruit.
16. A period marked by distinctive character or reckoned from a fixed point or event.
17. An officer who acts as military assistant to a more senior officer.
19. A silvery ductile metallic element found primarily in bauxite.
20. A coffee cake flavored with orange rind and raisins and almonds.
22. Type genus of the family Arcidae.
24. A woman hired to suckle a child of someone else.
26. Resinlike substance secreted by certain lac insects.
29. A software system that facilitates the creation and maintenance and use of an electronic database.
31. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
33. A heavy ductile magnetic metallic element.
34. Hard greenish-brown wood of the lignum vitae tree and other trees of the genus Guaiacum.
38. Type genus of the Alcidae comprising solely the razorbill.
42. How long something has existed.
43. (informal) Of the highest quality.
45. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
46. The United Nations agency concerned with the interests of labor.
49. Belonging to or on behalf of a specified person (especially yourself).
50. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
51. Baby bed with high sides.

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1. The brightest star in Cygnus.
2. Frogs, toads, tree toads.
3. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
4. A deep bow.
5. 100 lwei equal 1 kwanza.
6. (Greek mythology) A maiden seduced by Zeus.
7. Someone who plies a trade.
8. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
9. Fallow deer.
10. The face of a timepiece.
18. The longer of the two telegraphic signals used in Morse code.
21. A river of southwestern Africa that rises in central Angola and flows east and then north (forming part of the border between Angola and Congo) and continuing northwest through Congo to empty into the Congo River on the border between Congo and Republic of the Congo.
23. A flat wing-shaped process or winglike part of an organism.
25. A soft white precious univalent metallic element having the highest electrical and thermal conductivity of any metal.
27. A radioactive element of the actinide series.
28. A white metallic element that burns with a brilliant light.
30. Seed of a pea plant.
32. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
35. Large sweet juicy hybrid between tangerine and grapefruit having a thick wrinkled skin.
36. (in Gnosticism) A divine power or nature emanating from the Supreme Being and playing various roles in the operation of the universe.
37. Open-heart surgery in which the rib cage is opened and a section of a blood vessel is grafted from the aorta to the coronary artery to bypass the blocked section of the coronary artery and improve the blood supply to the heart.
39. The habitation of wild animals.
40. City in southwestern Colombia in a rich agricultural area.
41. An Arabic speaking person who lives in Arabia or North Africa.
44. An independent agency of the United States government responsible for collecting and coordinating intelligence and counterintelligence activities abroad in the national interest.
47. The syllable naming the fourth (subdominant) note of the diatonic scale in solmization.
48. 1,000,000,000 periods per second.

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